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(No Model.)

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Patented Oct. 15,1 1889.

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v RUSSELL A. HART, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,746, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed August 26, 1889. Serial No. 322,004. (No model.)

To all whom 'it'may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUSSELL A. HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Battle Creek, county of Calhoun, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful VVagon- Box, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wagon boxes which have sectional sides, so as to convert the box from one condition to another for various uses; and it has for its object the peculiar construction of stakes in sections attached to the ordinary; wagon-box, said sections being detachable from each other and provided with side-boards, substantially a below described and claimed.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a transverse section ofa wagon-box, showing the stakes in elevation. Figs. 2, 3, and- 4 are lettered details from Fig. 1, illustrating some of the adjustments; Fig. 5, an enlarged section on line 2 2 in Fig. 1, looking from a point above said line; Fig. 6, lettered broken details showing a change below described, and Fig. 7 is asec-' tion on line 3 3 in Fig. 6, looking from a point above.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, A is a wagon-box. The base or lower sections of the stakes are shown at B.. These sections are attached to the wagon-box at the sides outside of the sideboards E,near the front and rear ends of said box, and at or near the center,as Fig. 1 will serve to illustrate as regards the stakes at one end, the other stakes (not shown) being the same in construction. More than three of the stakes may I Fig. 5. The lower end of the section O-in'said figures is provided with a fulcrum-hole, into which the fulcrum-pivot a is passed, and with rows of holes in lines radiating from said fulcrum to receive the projections ito hold the section 0 at different angles. The upper end of section 0 has a series of holes in like relation with each other, and with the fulcrumpivott (like a on top of section B) and the projection 12, (like 2' on top of section B.)

The number of the projections and holes is a matter of choice, according to the strength required, only one projection being here shown on lower end of the section D and two on top of the section B. This latter section is stationary, while the sectionsC D are adjustable and detachable.

Figs. 6 and 7 show the pivot on and projections 7) on the lower end of the section 0, instead of on the'upper end of the fixed section B. This construction is preferable, inasmuch as the projections are all removed when the upper sections 0 D are both detached, thus leaving no projections on the section B to catch against anything. It will be observed that the pivots a t are longer than the projections 71 e, and are provided with nuts to bind the sections firmly together.

The object of having the pivots longer than the projections is in order that the nuts can be screwed off far enough (but not entirely off) to allow the sections to he slipped ofi from the projections to tilt them to different angles and allow the projections to pass into another series or row of holes without entirely detaching said sections.

The sections of the stakes have side-boards attached to them on the inside, so that when the sections are at avertical angle, as in Fig. 1, they make a much deeper box than when only a part of the sections are used. as in Fig.2, the section 0 is tilted outwardly and the upper section to the dotted horizontal position, a convenient hay-rack is formed. In Fig. 1 the dotted positions show other angles.

-In Fig. 4 the upper section has been detached and the section 0 is at a horizontal angle. When the sections are in this position, they may serve as side seats to the wagon-box, but without a back to the seats. The dotted position of section 0 in this figure shows a rack of less dimensions than that shown in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 3 the sections 0 D are so arranged as to form a seat with a back, so that the When,

wagon can serve as a carry-all. In this use of the upper sections they are reversed-thatis, the sections D D in Fig. 1 arechanged places with, so that the seat of the horizontal part C will have a back, and at the same time the side-boards of each section 0 D will not conflict With each other.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new is- A wagon-box having sectional sides, said sides consisting of the base fixed sections C0111- prising sections of stakes having side-boards attached thereto and additional like sections,

RUSSELL A. HART.

Vitnesses:

L. N. BURKE, JOHN P. OGGEL. 

